focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …

lead either to actual war or to peace in the shadow of war. Because war is destrucrive, human beings are typically risk … averse, and there exist numerous complementarities in production and consumption, we can expect peace in the shadow of war to … be most often preferable by all parties. Actual war can take place because of incomplete information about the …

This paper analyses the effects of activity choices on farm household income and consumption in a war … with instrumental variables. War-time activity choices (such as subsistence farming) are shown to enhance welfare in the … post-war period. Market and social exchange induce only limited welfare gains. Cotton adoption reduces household welfare …

article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that … war enhances land abundance. This implies that farm size for the analysis of land investment and tenure security. The … paper formally tests for land abundance and estimates a system of equations using farm survey data from post-war Mozambique …

This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a … portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub- Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data … estimates the determinants of agricultural coping strategies in post-war Mozambique. Post-war coping strategies differ from pre …

developing countries situated in the wider context of the world economy. It examines the possible impact of their rapid growth on … world economy. The answer is that rapid growth in China already supports growth elsewhere, so far primarily as a market for … beginning to change the balance of economic power in the world. …

history and the initial endowments of the two Northern hemisphere economies China and India which are land scarce and labour …